Review - The Body Electric by Beth Revis

Ella Shepherd has dedicated her life to using her unique gift--the ability to
enter people's dreams and memories using technology developed by her mother--to
help others relive their happy memories.

But not all is at it seems.

Ella starts seeing impossible things--images of her dead father, warnings of
who she cannot trust. Her government recruits her to spy on a rebel group,
using her ability to experience--and influence--the memories of traitors. But
the leader of the rebels claims they used to be in love--even though Ella's
never met him before in her life. Which can only mean one thing...

Someone's altered her memory.

Ella's gift is enough to overthrow a corrupt government or crush a growing
rebel group. She is the key to stopping a war she didn't even know was
happening. But if someone else has been inside Ella's head, she cannot trust
her own memories, thoughts, or feelings.

*I
received a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review. Thanks to
Patchwork Press - Cooperative and NetGalley*

3/5 stars

Ella
Shepherd lives in a future which is at peace after a war that changed the
world.

Her
father, who was a brilliant scientist involved in developing androids, died in
an explosion. Now Ella lives with her mother who is slowly dying from Hebb's
Disease at the Reverie, a centre where people can relive their memories.

Ella
manages to go inside her mother's memory while she's having a reverie,
something that hasn't happened before. She is contacted by the head of the government
and asked to go into Representative Belles' mind to find out if he is a
terrorist.

Ella
meets a boy called Jack who warns her to be careful, a boy that seems to know
Ella very well but she has no memory of him.

Ella was
a good protagonist. I felt so sorry for her as she struggled with her mother's
illness and loneliness because her best friend was in the military at the lunar
base. She was strong and likeable.

Jack was
a good character. He didn't push Ella, who couldn't remember him, and I felt so
sorry for him - it must have been so hard being around Ella.

The plot
didn't grip me but I did want to read on. There were several surprises that I
didn't see coming.

About Me

I have three currently published short stories (Escaping Rapture which is part of the After Tomorrow anthology, Renee and the Wolf which is part of the Mystical Bites anthology, and The Curse of the Sea). My previously published novel Girl Meets Underworld and As We Lie Dying, a short story, are both being rewritten along with a bunch of other stories that are fighting for my attention. I run A Book Addict's Bookshelves.